Handwritten entry for the date represents the Civil War diary of Rachel Carter Craighead. It addresses the news of Confederate and Federal losses at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing (or the Battle of Shiloh), the Confederate generals killed or...

Handwritten entry for the date, covering parts of two pages of this small volume representing the Civil War diary of Rachel Carter Craighead. This entry addresses the news of the Battle of Pittsburg Landing (also known as the Battle of Shiloh),...

In this entry Lucy writes of a visit from General Morgan and his wife. Lucy liked Mrs. Morgan although she was not brillant. There was a Ball with meager food and clothes that were reworked.. She writes that events in Vicksburg & Charleston are...